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Photo 2: Directory of the first members of Männergesangverein. Archives of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Fond Društva.
as, a few music fans decided to compose an interim working committee
consisting of Klaudio Hascha, Hochmayer, Josip pl. Vancaš, Hans Nieme­
czek and Ivan V. Popović.14 The committee headed by the secretary of the
directorate of Bosnia and Herzegovina railways Kaludio Hascha15 submit-
ted the draft of the statute to the Provincial Government as early as on 22
November 1886,16 which reveals that the intention to form the society was
backed by 33 signed members, mostly Hungarians, Czechs, Germans, Aus-
trians and Croats and Serbs who drew their origin from other parts of the
Empire.17 They waited for the response by the goverment for two – two and
14 Anon., “Pjevačko društvo u Sarajevu (Mali vjesnik),” Sarajevski list, no. 134 (14 No-

vember 1886): 3.
15 Božidar Širola, Pregled povijesti hrvatske muzike (Zagreb: Edition Pirop, 1922), 219.
16 Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fond Društva.
17 Ibid.

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